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This comprehensive review synthesizes a decade of human and animal research to explain how the gut and brain communicate ...

Sinai Health researchers have shown a blood test that can predict Crohn's disease years before symptoms appear, opening the ...

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Researchers are developing functional, patient-specific livers using 3D bioprinting and stem cell technology to eliminate the ...

The outlook has brightened for federal science budgets, but political appointees are likely to have a big say in how that ...

Kimchi may do far more than add flavor to meals—it could help fine-tune the human immune system. A clinical study using advanced single-cell genetic analysis found that regular kimchi consumption ...